I've been back in Newtown exactly a week, & it still feels weird. Wonderful, but weird. I guess part of the weirdness is about being in the same apartment building, but not the same apartment. This one is spacious, & has a view (pics later ( Read more... )

I had a small epiphany this morning as I was sorting out the veggies I'd just bought & was preparing to cut up the chicken: at my age I can accept that my life is never going to have a simple even tenor (tho' I can still hope for Bunyan's sunlit uplands some day). No, it's always going to be full of ups & downs, elation & depression, excitement ( Read more... )

A Kitchen Garden

Picking rosemary from my verandah for a lentil dish* I'm cooking, I suddenly remembered Riley, Ace of Goats, and how much he would have enjoyed my
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Whew! What a week I've had - chasing work, doing evening shifts, going to interviews, & in between trying to shop, cook & clean. I'm exhausted & it all starts over again tomorrow ( Read more... )

Well, I've been in my new place for a fortnight, & although I still haven't got pictures up, otherwise I am well & truly at home. Today I went to a big hardware store with a car-equipped friend & got 3 big bags of potting mix, a hose & some vegetable seedlings ready to start growing salad ingredients on my verandah. No frost & no marauding ( Read more... )

What a day! I have cleaned the bathroom, washed the floors, done two loads of washing, paid my power bill, reported in to my business guru and made a banana cake and finally updated my ravelry projects ( Read more... )

The mystery project for idlewild is finished at last - & looks pretty good, though I say so myself. (I have taken some photos, so once the present has been received I can put them up here or on ravelry.) It's all wrapped up ready for me to take to the post office tomorrow through the blizzards of snow or icy rain ( Read more... )

When you're in a gourmet cooking mood ( Read more... )

The first section is yecch! Worth reading as I haven't met anything quite as awful! The rest is lovely, & a yummy recipe at the end.

Good Thymes and Bad